. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. p a few months of consulship ; thetriljunitiau power was conferred upon him for life, with the privi-lege of making any proposal hepleased to the Senate,^ togetherwith the pro-consular authorityin the senatorial provinces as wellas his own, and the right to wearthe war-dress and the sword evenwithin the pomoerium. This timeit was indeed the abdication ofthe Senate and people ; for tothe military authority which healready held was added the civilpower which the tribunes, owingto the undefined nature o
. History of Rome and of the Roman people, from its origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians;. p a few months of consulship ; thetriljunitiau power was conferred upon him for life, with the privi-lege of making any proposal hepleased to the Senate,^ togetherwith the pro-consular authorityin the senatorial provinces as wellas his own, and the right to wearthe war-dress and the sword evenwithin the pomoerium. This timeit was indeed the abdication ofthe Senate and people ; for tothe military authority which healready held was added the civilpower which the tribunes, owingto the undefined nature of theiroffice, had more than once ambitious men no longersought support among the people,but from the armies, the tribune-ship had fallen off greatly ; itcould still, however, furnish rightto him who had only might, forit represented the national sov-ereignty.^ Augustus did not re-fuse the pre-eminently republicanmagistracy, which carried with itinviolability and allowed him to receive appeal from all jurisdic-tions, to stay tlie action of all tlie magistracies and the vote of. The tribunes and consuls liail the right to propose legislative resolutions to the Senateand people. Augustus, who held the tribunitian, and was soon to hold the consular, power, hadthus the initiative in law ; that is, the real sovereignty. But with his customary prudence heliniitccl himself to making use of it only once at each session of the Senate. Caesar, holdingthe dictatorshi]), had no need of the tribimitian power; it was necessary to Augustus, who hadnut «•islied to assinuc the dreadc(I title of dictator, and who as a patrician and imperator couldnot be tribune (cf. Tac, Ann. iii. 50). ? The power of the tribunes could bo exercised only iit Rome and within one mile of itswalls; the /mtenln» trihuniria of the imperator extended throughout the Empire. Dion (li. 19)certainly connncs the pnlestnn tribunicia of Augustus to the ancient limits ; but Suetonius(Tiliir. 11) speak» of Tib
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